Forbidden Gathering by Gina Samson. Queens Public Library will be hosting an eight-week Caribbean Arts Festival featuring artists from as far away as Bangladesh and Argentina and as close as Queens. The festival will take place at nine branches: Cambria Heights, Central,…
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Above: Kids make paper by hand in Week 3 of our Book Creation Workshop. For the past two years, Queens Public Library Foundation’s Innovation Fund has supported creative initiatives at the libraries with awards of up to $10,000 each. In the Fund’s second year, winning projects…
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The Queens Memory Project invites you to Making Community Story Quilts, a new exhibit at the Queens Museum featuring artwork created during their 2017 and 2018 story quilt workshops. These multi-session workshops invited people from the Fresh Meadows and Flushing library…
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Queens Library is proud to present “Festival an Koulè (Festival of Colors),” a six-week exhibit of twenty established and emerging artists who represent the rich culture of Haiti. During the six weeks of the festival, we’ll introduce you to some of the participating artists so…
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Kids at Queens Library at Astoria made coasters by upcycling discarded CDs and decorating them with paper scraps and foam shapes. What do you think of our final project? For more activities like this, take a look at our how-to guide on how to make a fish craft out of CDs and…
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